TRANSVERSE

transverse

Noun

  1. Anything that is transverse or athwart.
  2. The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

Verb

  1. To overturn; to change.
  2. To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

Adjective

  1. Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.
  2. Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.


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